AmigaONE X5000 (A-Eon Technology Ltd on Facebook)

[agami]

They can call it AmigaONE DonkeyBalls X5000/5020:eP64-1A4 for all I care.
What's more important to me is that:

• it is released to the public by the end of 2014
• it is available in Board + OS form
• the "price of admission" for the new systems (X3500 board + OS) is bellow US$1,000

[agami]

I...didn't think that was realistic either.
I'd done some numbers estimating an 'at cost' T1022 based board and that was at least as high as that price.
And...I really want one of the two higher end boards.
Or...a successor with AltiVec instructions.

What I specified is a wish list; basically I'm calling out some of the key reasons I didn't purchase a X1000:

• Delayed release
• Complete PC only
• High price tag

To all involved working on these new systems I'd like to say that hitting two of the three wishes would go a long way. Basically, I don't want a complete PC and I won't care about it in 2016. If you manage to release it in the next 12 months, as a Board + OS kit, and somewhere between US$1,000 and US$1,500  for the entry level X3500, then it is appealing.

I'm having a "replacing Giambi" moment here (from Moneyball).

[agami]

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Besides, IMHO ppc makes sense, there is no need for amiga os to become yet another obscure x86 OS. And stepping in others footstep, means you can never pass them.

"I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space"
Hamlet

[agami]

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Look on ebay for xenon workstations.  You can get a dual cpu 4 core xenon
workstation used for 5x cheaper than this things price.

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Muchos gracias haywirepc for bringing this to my intention. I can't believe it didn't occur to me sooner, mainly because I've been buying used multicore Xeon servers  for extremely low prices for my CloudStack farm e.g. HP Proliant DL380 G5 2 x Quad Core Xeon @ 2.66 GHz (total 16 threads) with 32 GB RAM, SAS drives and so on, for around A$500.00

The beauty of of cloud infrastructure platforms like OpenStack and CloudStack is that you don't need the redundant power supplies and RAID controllers so these workstations are a perfect fit.

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